Bob Dylan

A vacation trip to see the World's Fair in New York changed the orbit of popular music in Nashville. In August 1965, Nashville session player Charlie McCoy was in New York on that trip when Bob Johnston invited him to play acoustic guitar on a session he was producing for Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited" album. The track was "Desolation Row," the epic 11-minute song that closes Dylan's sixth record. "Long song," McCoy said with a laugh recently during an interview at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville. "There was nobody else playing fills but me. Later on Bob Johnston confessed to me, 'I was using you as bait to...

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